Chapter 16: Governance
What is governance? It's essentially a policy framework that dictates how your organization will conduct its business. In this context, we're specifically looking at how to address security requirements, industry regulations and standards, and day-to-day operational tasks related to your Microsoft 365 environment.
Many organizations choose to ignore governance topics until they encounter problems – such as regulatory issues, legal discovery matters, or a sprawling cloud infrastructure that has become too hard to manage.
The Microsoft 365 platform provides a wide array of governance tools and processes to help you lay a strong foundation for management and compliance.
In this chapter, we're going to explore several areas of governance, including the following:
- Security
- Compliance
- Life cycle management
- Building a governance team
- Governance questionnaire
Security and compliance will cover the core topics...
